I have to start a notebook and keep some notes as I build each new project and record my steps and the results produced. Thanks for the additional posts and support! This has been a more confusing change than I had anticipated. Some screens from what I did tonight… again, I REALLY FEEL so much better right now. Tomorrow when I get home I will hopefully have enough time to run the 3D model that is going on the reverse side of the project. This is the one I have had worked up for a few weeks. The first of 3 parts to this file have been completed.

I just went out to the garage and grabbed a piece of MDF, sized it the same way I do my wood blanks and went about the way I envisioned this working several weeks ago when I first got my machine assembled. The quick responses from the two of you gave me the little bit of a kick and encouragement that I needed to Sometimes you just have to throw away the manual and go for it ). I have a tendency to over think and over research things and send myself into a spiral of doubt as I keep seeing something either new or contrary to what I have already absorbed. I feel so much better now than I did a few hours ago… first off, thank you and for both reaching out and being supportive! I was really getting down on myself and how little I thought I was grasping from everything I was reading. I really thought at this point in time I would have been posting images of a job that I was so proud of and instead, I find myself still spinning my wheels in the mud. Unfortunately, I think I bit off more than I can chew all at once. Just feeling a bit lost at the moment… especially since I have committed myself financially to learning all this. It feels like I am back at zero when customers expect 99 when they see the work I have done in the past.

If I had started my CNC journey with VCarveP and the SO3 I doubt I would have kicked out as many projects early on as I did with the Carvewright. It feels like every time I have something figured out, well I find out that I don’t. Then the machine is loaded with sensors that know if there is a problem and it will automatically pause a job rather than damage something. Sorry, I just need to vent someplace because I haven’t run a single job for well over a month and it’s because I finally realized just how much of the backend work the Carvewright software did for the user. I literally feel like my head might explode with all these parameters I have to understand and set properly to avoid the risk of ruining a project or damaging a tool. A bit of an exaggeration but compared to the feeling I have had for the last month, it’s fairly accurate. Was the motto for the Carvewright system and their software.

Carvewright tutorial